Saturday, June 6, 2009

In search of excellence: how to bind competitive advantages of academia with industry

Since for more than 5 years I am sitting in position of the splits. I am doing academic and industry work, or let me put it correctly, trying to do these both works. I had always questions and discussions about what is the ideal way of combining these two areas. Some people already may object that it is impossible...They will be right! But there are people who is doing something like this, then it is possible for people who understands origins of the industry and academy...

I think it is a bit early for me to say something about it and hence, I would like to present you an interesting view that I have found at HBR Academia vs. Industry: The Difference Is in the Punctuation Marks. According to it authors the most important is to understand the punctuation marks.

For me, it is most important to put it into the right places in the life to form an adequate story :)

My regards...

Monday, June 1, 2009

The way to solve problems :)

Sounds strange it is really hard to provide universal receipt for every situation... But, recently coming across the I Want You to Apologize article at HBR I reminded myself the old truth. The solution of problem comes from the recognition of it. If person can not see or easy understand that there is a problem s/he will never cope with it. Ignoring does not mean solving problem, we have to find our emotional power to accept problem, think about it, avoid future mistakes...

As author Peter says, sometimes all that we need is to say I am sorry, I did not intend to it. What can I do to correct it? That is the key to the solution. It is hard to accept but seems that we were looking for a key in a different place. That is normal as a human being we do not want to push ourselves into the hard situations and being irrational rationals pointing and emphasizing the easiest solution...and at the end this easy solution does not provide any return :) We just waste our energy, emotions, nerves and other resources.

Should we rethink every step? Let's being more rational :)